Category: Bright & Beautiful

Today starts the Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge for December. We were challenged to pick a holiday and make a card. I chose New Years and Thanksgiving. So here is New Years!. For New Years, I used Karen’s Katie Label Accordion die turned from portrait to landscape. The video instructions can be found here. The wonderful thing about this technique is that I could easily use Stampin Up’s Gold Soiree Specialty Designer Series paper! I embossed the stars and sentiment from Bright & Beautiful in gold embossing powder and die cut them with the matching Framelits.

For the middle panel, I just omitted the line about Christmas. The little stars come from the negative part of Karen’s Star Edges. It makes a very shiny New Year’s wish!

This golden card will be part of my Christmas Stamp a Stack in August. It features Bright & Beautiful and the Gold Soiree Designer Series Paper. The rhinestones are colored with my Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities.

Supplies

Stamp Set – Bright & Beautiful

Card stock – Brushed Gold, Whisper White, Gold Soiree DSP

Ink – Versamark, Jet Black Stazon, Cherry Cobbler

Etc – Star Framelits, rhinestones

I just love this set! It will be in the upcoming Holiday Mini, but you can get it now with the Big Shot and Bundles promotion! Hugs, Fran

These gift card holders (136662) are so much fun to use! The little fronts (3 7/8 x 3 7/8) are just the right size for cut embellishments. I used the Distressed Dots embossing folder to make the background and then added embossed stars in White and Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. By tucking a little piece of Cherry Cobbler seam binding behind the front, this gift card holder can hang on a tree.

Silve and Gold! This card has embossed stars in silver and gold over silver dot vellum. The base is Brushed Silver card stock. I stamped the sentiment on the vellum in gold and heat embossed and then added the “Christmas and New Year” on Whisper White in silver. The little star clip and rhinestones finished it off.

Though it looks like a lot of work, the framelits make this card very easy to do. You can get this stamp set and framelit bundle now – as a sneak peek – with the Big Shot and Bundles Promotion! Hugs, Fran

Bright & Beautiful is a new set in the upcoming Holiday Mini – and it’s available as a bundle right now with the Big Shot and Bundles promotion! This is a card I did using it and the new Under the Tree Specialty Designer Series paper. This paper is so heavy it easily holds it own as a card base. However – stamping on the design side did not show up as intended!